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Samsung Ativ S review: A fresh start

30 October 2012 | Read the review | Post your comment
Samsung Ativ S review: A fresh start - read the full textTheir Ativ S was the first Windows Phone 8 flagship announced and, respectful of chronology, the first we're about to properly review. The Nokia Lumia 920, the HTC Windows Phone 8X and the Ativ S are often painted as allies - but that's mostly rhetoric...

 

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Camera is actually worse than s3, not by much but windows JPEG compresion is awful.
is same as paint , it destroy photos

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  • 2012-10-31 08:55
  • PvYx

I think this phone will also fall on its face like the omnia ...it is hard to digest an androidless samsung !

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  • 2012-10-31 08:51
  • HkqX

Confirmed no FM Radio supported ?

Omg. Look like All Windows phone 8 does not have this.

What a shame.

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  • 2012-10-31 07:37
  • uCLQ

Yawn! Still a boring OS with nothing to offer, not to mention the apps....wich are horrible and freaking expensive( 15£ for a compass app??? Are u kidding me?). No matter what hardware it packs the os is killing it. Just another boring ios clone, and just as innovative as apple. We bring u resizable tiles! It s more than a tile it s a resizable one....and this changes everything, again! Bottom line is that u can spend your hard earned money on a more mature os,wp is just not worth that kind of cash.

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  • 2012-10-31 07:29
  • ajTh

GSMArena how bout a benchmark(like android benchmarks) of all windows 8 phones......especially ativ S vs HTC 8X HD vs Nokia lumia 920

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  • 2012-10-31 07:14
  • 7q95

http://www.gsmarena.com/showpi...amp;idPage=2
..really ugly button .... looks old fashioned in design ..not at all appealing

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  • 2012-10-31 06:38
  • kAmE

Are the lenses also available in video mode?

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  • 2012-10-31 06:28
  • mT@b

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-10-31 05:06 from v0Xt - click to readyou mean thing like this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co­m.microsoft.smartglass

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  • 2012-10-31 05:35
  • KiVc

Shame.. all android & iphone user doesnt own an xbox. & i heard that this phone real features glows if you do have an xbox 360.

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  • 2012-10-31 05:06
  • v0Xt

"Unfortunately there is no FM radio on the Samsung Ativ S. The Samsung Galaxy S III does have an FM receiver so its absence here can either be down to the drivers not being ready yet, or the chipset transplant leading to the axing of the feature."

I read somewhere that Windows Phone 8 removed FM support as prior OS supported it.

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  • 2012-10-31 05:00
  • Ly1R

No FM radio!?

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  • 2012-10-31 04:07
  • kWRx

i love Nokia Lumia 920

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  • 2012-10-31 04:03
  • 9FNh

My 1st choice is still the Nokia Lumia 920 but this looks like a sweet 2nd contender

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  • 2012-10-31 03:55
  • LKpV

Vita means war in Swahili, Now its time for an all out war with an Ativ

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  • 2012-10-31 03:45
  • NXyw

Hope samaumg becomes a leader in this too then Nokia will be lost in the wild...

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  • 2012-10-31 03:20
  • uvqK

I think yhe only advantage android hqs over windows is high level of customization....while its a good thing to let diff companies and users to control their phone it leads to fragmentationqnd frag leads to decreased performance. Lags and hangs have plagued android from the very beginnimg....its all bcoz they have nt optimed android towards a specific chip mqnufacturer...but microsoft has outdone themselves this time. While they removed many previous restrictions but they hqve still mqintained absolute buttery smoothness of os......i think this os is gonna catchup with android in apps cause developers dont need to write seperate apps they just need to port app from windows 8 bcoz both shqres same core......it wont be long wen we start seeing apps like km player and some old generation desktop games like half life on wind ph 8......

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  • 2012-10-31 03:04
  • uu4b

So nice

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  • 2012-10-31 02:43
  • HsLh

Looks nicer than SGS3.

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  • 2012-10-31 02:14
  • t7Xk

"There'll be no learning curve but the performance boost will be instantly felt - the dual Krait cores combined with Microsoft's optimizations have made an already snappy OS even snappier. A job well done."

Any WP8 will be faster than the fastest Android phone because of the optimizations Microsoft worked with Qualcomm on the Snapdragon S4 chip on WP8.

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  • 2012-10-31 01:51
  • kg3U

Samsung will have a hard time competing with Nokia within this space. Same scenario If Nokia adopted Android.

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  • 2012-10-31 01:48
  • X3tr
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